Now
that Google has alienated so many
people with the Google Problem, there's a
desire generally to hit back at Google! But let's
get this in perspective. Google has acted out of sheer
desperation following its own miserable failure to deal with
people playing it up with seo nonsense and cheating. In the end,
Google started employing people who made claims they could do
something about it, and then, rather than dealing with the actual
problem, they did things they were deluded would help, and now
the world is the worse for it.

Google's
failure to deal with the real problem is sad, but their
punishment of us honest people is something which I find
unacceptable at a level which seems to defy words. As surely as
sea level rise following global warming doesn't really hit back
at the polluters but instead hits places like the Maldives,
Google's bizarre system of arbitrary punishments hit those
websites that are good, long-standing, and have real content.

I
am a paranoid schizophrenic, and I believe I am being persecuted.
Google is welcome to write to me and to
explain if this isn't so. However, they won't. They won't,
because Google believes Google is God. A company
that believes it is omniscient and is similarly deluded into
believing it can meet out punishments arbitrarily and get away
with it, is likely to be the subject of some comeback.

Another
God/Google problem is being ineffable. Google has a lot of things
going on that are unknowable, or imagined to be unknowable. This
is largely done by secrecy, but also to some extent
disinformation. Note: Blekko takes the
opposite stance.

Yet
another Google problem is having no respect for privacy. OK it's
not as bad as Facebook, but then
it's arguable whether the East German Secret Police, the Stasi,
were as bad for privacy as Facebook. Yet, Google seems to have
swallowed Facebook's bad mistake of assuming people deserve no
privacy. As a counterblast to his, the new search engine Duck Duck Go has
instituted an entirely contrasting pro-privacy policy in which
your privacy is important! Well Done!

I
suspect that Google has some sort of kangaroo court where people
and their websites are tried and found guilty in a witchfinding
trial type of way. There is no telling if this is true or not,
because Google is entirely unaccountable.

I
am so offended by the failure of Google to treat me properly,
that I am considering putting in my robots.txt file "disallow:
GoogleBot". This is a bit like suicide, where it makes a
point. The advantage of this being would be that it would get rid
of all the fear and negativity associated with the Google Problem where the
state of fear itself becomes a danger.

The
key point of this is that other search engines would still be
allowed free access to my site, and would still include me. Then
we would see how well these other search engines behave.

I
think that one of the things that has tipped Google over the edge
into becoming a pariah, is the deceitful changing of page
titles. This is a gross
insult. It's dishonest, but also it suggests a corrupted way of
thinking. Somehow it undermines the nature of the Internet, in
that idea of the "true democracy of pages" which Google
used to talk about when it was still a decent search engine.
Instead, by tarring a page with a title cobbled off the front of
the website, it's rubbishing it. It's like taking an
encyclopaedia, and next to each of the entries, gluing a piece
torn off the front cover.

Some
other search engines used to do this, but they have mostly
desisted. They have learnt from the folly of their ways.

Stuff
Google! ...It's a sentiment
in which we move forward to a time when there is no Google and no
other corporate problems trying to monopolise the world of search.
Instead, a wide diversity of search
engines can form a free
market economy with fair competition.

It's
important that no search engine gets a big slice of the market,
or similar search engine
problems can potentially
arise.

I
am so disgusted with Google for what's happened that I have
replaced by default search provider. Most of the searches are now
done here via Blekko with a few
done on several of the other search engines. I have also removed
Google from my Mozilla Firefox search box, not that I ever used
that. (However, I still search on Google for terms to do with the
Google problems, so that in the unlikely event Google has some
sort of logs, these queries will come up, and someone might take
notice).

If
you would like to remove Google from your Mozilla Firefox search
box, here's how to do it: Click on the drop-down box next to the
search. Then select "manage search engines". Then click
on Google and press DELETE. Hah! Gone! A symbolic gesture!

It
would also be a gesture against Google if people changed their
browser homepages. I have never had anyone's search as my browser
homepage, but some people have Google as their homepage. Well, if
you'd like to change your homepage, here's a helpful page on How to Change your
Browser Homepage. Also see Get Rid of Google as
Homepage. There are
alternatives. I recommend you create your own page and have what
you want on it, including some of your favourite sites. Use HTML. In the
meantime, you could have the page of
search engines as a temporary
stopgap homepage.

However,
if you would really like to Stuff Google, the thing to do is to
write in and join my campaign for folks to club together against
the problem. This is explained on the page Google has alienated
us

Special
point of note: The Google Problem is a
nuisance and an annoyance and gets in the way of progress, but
Google is not hated. In contrast, Facebook is hated.
The Google problem is merely a detraction from the world, a
denial of service, and a sorry state of affairs in comparison to
how things should be done. In contrast, Facebook is
considered a clear and present threat to liberty and the future
of life.